I have been using this approach to do systematic analysis of performance regressions for several years now. I came up with it while looking at some tricky problems in Internet Explorer about three yea...

Just found this: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/1/grace-hopper-to-programmers-mind-your-nanoseconds.html
Worth it just to hear Grace.
I think I'll get some microseconds to hang around people's...

This series can still be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649152.aspx
While some of the content is stale since it refers specifically to .NET 2.0 I think all of the conceptual con...

I was lamenting that we haven't really done terribly much to make multi-threaded debugging easier in say the last decade and I was fortunate enough to be able to have a conversation with Brain Crawfor...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio]
[I know I promised to talk about Whidbey in this installment but I realized I needed a bridge to get there or else Id totally skip over Everett so thi...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio]
Were still on the part of the story where I was off working in MSN which means all I can give you are the first- and second-hand stories that Ive heard ...

This is just great fun! And, of course, The Documentary is all wrong because they left out many of my favorite parts *grin*.
OK, seriously, there is no one history of Visual Studio because of course t...